Mei-Chi Shaw

Mei-Chi Shaw
Native name 蕭美琪
Born 1955
Taipei, Taiwan
Fields Mathematics
Institutions Notre Dame University
Alma mater Princeton University
Thesis Hodge Theory on Domains with Cone-Like or Horn-Like Singularities (1981)
Doctoral advisor Joseph Kohn
Doctoral students
  • Deyun Wu
  • Sophia Vassiliadou
  • Phillip Harrington
Known for Several complex variables, partial differential equations and complex geometry
Notable awards

Mei-Chi Shaw is a professor of mathematics at the University of Notre Dame.[1] Her research concerns partial differential equations.

Life and career

Shaw was born in Taipei, Taiwan in 1955.[2] She graduated with an undergraduate degree in mathematics from National Taiwan University in 1977. Shaw received her PhD from Princeton University four years later in 1981, working with Joseph Kohn.[3] She then took a postdoctoral position at Purdue University[2] During this time, she married her husband, Hsueh-Chia Chang. In 1983, Shaw took a tenure-track position at Texas A&M University, moving to University of Houston in 1986 and finally relocating to the University of Notre Dame in 1987, first as an associate professor and then as full professor.

Awards and honors

In 2012, Shaw became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[4]

Selected publications

References

  1. "Mei-Chi Shaw". Retrieved Feb 9, 2015.
  2. 1 2 Shaw, Mei-Chi. "A Woman Mathematician's Journey," ICCM Not. 2 (2014), no. 1, 59-74.
  3. Mei-Chi Shaw at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
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